Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he was only a freshman, and they'd all been through the experience together, and now it was their class out there trying to make the big season especially memorable. In fact, they were so close to Mowatt that they had come to Cambridge that day in his car...
General Motors, the acknowledged pacesetter in auto prices, announced the largest increases in more than a decade. The window-sticker price of the average G.M. car will go up 3.9%, from $3,070 on 1969 models to $3,189 on the 1970 line. The company called the rise "modest" in view of much larger increases in the cost of labor and many materials. G.M. said that $38 of the $119 rise was for improved equipment, such as glass-fiber-reinforced tires, larger engines and disk brakes...
...largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles in the U.S. Last month Winnebago, which is named for the surrounding county, placed a $30 million order with the Dodge Truck Division for chassis and engines to build $120 million worth of motor homes -self-propelled dwellings that combine the mobility of a car with some of the comforts of home. Such vehicles have grown increasingly popular among affluent U.S. families as a convenient means to travel; go camping, take weekend outings and even long vacations.* Winnebago's sales have roughly doubled in each of the past four years. The company...
...Europe. In West Germany, some self-service laundries charge $1 to wash a load of clothing. Cantaloupes often sell for $1.75 apiece; coffee costs $1.74 a pound. Bread costs 60? a loaf in Paris, and cigarettes are 75? a pack in London. A publisher in Amsterdam sold his U.S. car when he discovered that commuting to work cost...
...steal $4 million from a stronghold in Turin, Italy. Mr. Bridger finds it a simply wizard idea and puts up expense money. Alas, Charlie's elephantine ambitions arise from a gnat-sized intellect. His gang is so crooked that none of them can drive straight. They wreck cars, argue with each other, assault fat ladies on the Turin buses and infuriate the Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis...